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by oz_media

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Well after reading about the first i-Pod draw, I thought it would be fun to discuss we've won, or perhaps NEARLY won.

I've won a bunch of different stuff through dealers and draws and such, but I think the most memorable was when when I entered a contest when I was about 5 1/2 and won a Raleigh bike! COOL BIKE TOO!!!

It was a cereal called ReadyBrek (an porridge) in England. You had to color in the street signs on the back of the cereal box and write a poem about what you'd do if you won the bike.

So don't laugh too hard, I was only six years old OKAY?!

"If I had a Raleigh bike, I'd ride it far and wide. I'd stoke up on my Readybrek to keep me warm inside."

So I won this really cool bike that I had for years, I learned to ride on that baby!

WHen they delivered it (a few weeks before Christmas), we weren't home, so the neighbour (a kind elderly lady) snapped it up and stored it in her house, thinking it was a Christmas surprise. Only thing is, she went away for three days, so when the Readybrek guys called my mum to congratulate me it was pretty confusing.

But the neighbour came home, I got my bike and we all lived happily ever after. :)

I also won 5 quid for being dressed up as a sugar cube for a fancy dress contest, a Coleman stove for winning the 'MISS' Strawberry Flats contest and a trip to Vegas for dressing up as a ballerina (tutu and tiara included, alcohol can be dangerous you know) at a Halloween party, but that's another story altogether. ;)

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by j.lupo

Never won anything, but competing was always fun. Of course you have to "play" to win and I do but so far the only luck I have had is bad luck. :(

Maybe I will get lucky here at TR and win an i-Pod over the next few weeks. ;)
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Hey Oz Tell more about that Halloween party story. That sounds like an interesting story. :)

by jdclyde

My first big win was back in cub scouts. they did a raffle of cakes that different dens would bring in to raise money. First I won and ran up and grabbed a box of cup cakes. I then won again and ran right back up and grabbed a cake before my mom could pass on us winning twice. (as about 8ish).

As a door prize I won tickets to see the Detroit Pistons last year, that was a good time.

My boss went to a seminar with me but didn't have a business card with him when they collected for a door prize so he wrote his name on one of mine and of course he wins $100 cash. He took me out for a nice steak dinner at Harri Karri's in Chicago with the ill gotten gains. (First time I EVER had a $50 steak!)

Besides that I have never won more than a two dollar scratch-off lottery ticket.

so the highlight of my life, cupcakes and piston tickets. I thought I would amount to more somehow.....

by jamesrl

Lets see.

When I was a little gaffer, the local radio station had a contest in the spring to promote a local gardening store. First caller won some triple mix and fertilizer. I was bound and determined I was going to win. But I only had a rotary phone, and I figured some of those people with push button phones would beat me.

So I carefully noticed what the queues were that the contest announcement was coming, and I began to dial. I finally won....not that it was about the prize.

I have won a cell phone at a golf game(highest score - not the one you really want to win), won a pair of tickets to "Wicked" a couple of months back.

When I worked at a big multinational, our computer vendor would have a presentation and at the end have kind of a trivia contest to see who had been paying attention. As a real trivia nut, they finally had to take me aside and say, let someone else answer first, you win too many times. I did get baseball tickets, logo jackets etc.

At another vendor's event in the 80s, they had an Indiana Jones theme and I won a leather whip and a waist pouch thingy. My wife looked at me really strangely when I came home with a whip. I also won a copy of dBase IV v 1.2 at the event - big woop cause I already had all the free FoxPro I needed.

My son won a bike in a contest held by the police at a country fair a few years back.

I came second out of 50 in a NCAA big four basketball pool even though I didn't follow college basketball. I just looked at the odds published in the paper, and figured that 3 out of 4 times the published odds would win, and I would look for the well known basketball school was an underdog to beat the odds.

In the same year 3 colleagues on my floor had wives all due in the same week as my wife. We had a pool to predict the delivery date/hour. I won.

I think having some university stats course helps in these ventures.

James

by jdclyde

My last job (was a shop rat) was big in the football (real american football that is!) and Nascar pools.

As they were all random, someone like myself had a chance as I do not follow sports AT ALL.

I would win about a quarter of the time, which really pissed off my companions as I would have to walk into the shop to find out what the score was and who even one.

Also after the Andrew Dice Clay show a few months back held at the casino, I got on the roulet table and paid for my ticket and most of my drinks from my winnings! Gunna have to get back out there the next weekend I don't have the boys!

by it_lobo

Short list of things I have won at Ducks Unlimiter and Pheasants Forever

Browning .12 Ga
Remmington .20 Ga Youth Express
2-Remmington 597 22
2-Ruger 10/22
Franchi O/U 12 Ga
Marlin 22
2-sleeping bags
5-Prints (1 really cool pencil sketch by Terry Redlin)
Boot chest
and many more small items

I am sure for some reason this is not what Oz is looking for, but he will have to live with it.

by jamesrl

My brother used to take me to tirkey shoots (no live turkeys are harmed) and I used to shoot with my old 12 gauge single shot that I gave him when I left for college.

He always beat me buy a few pellets... Finally I wised up and asked if we could alternate shoots so I could win something - and I got a nice ham.

My dad once won a "Texas Mickey" of Canadian Club at a Rod and Gun club event. It had a plunger like the ketschup dispensers in college, that would dispense 1 oz shots. I think it was an Imperial Gallon (160 ounces).

James

by tomsal

1 Big Mac from McDonalds
2 Medium Drinks from Subway (this and the McD's thing was from those "scratch and win" cards)

1 Computer Game (Red Faction - mentioned in another thread on here)

Oh I also "won" a few trophies from my Martial Arts days..but considering the hefty entry fees for those tournaments, I think I pretty much paid for those trophies anyway..lol

One time I felt special because here in Philadelphia the local rock station WMMR were giving out tickets to a free concert they were sponsoring. I got a set of tickets thinking I was some lucky guy or whatever....here I find out to call in and get the tickets wasn't winning them, they were giving them to ANYONE who called and asked for them and while supplies lasted..lol.

My brothers each got a pair, I got a pair...it was a fun night...and not a bad concert for a freebie.

by jamesrl

In university I worked on the campus FM radio station(5,000 watts and stereo), and one of the tasks I did was work with the station librarian, listening to and cataloguing new material. It was lots of fun.

He went on to work at a local commercial station, and late one night he was giving away tickets to a special premiere of "This is Spinal Tap". He asked for the 6th caller, and when I called and said hi, he asked which caller he had asked for. He told me, "Congratulations, you are the 6th caller" even though I doubt I was.

The fun part of it was that all of the people at the special screening won tickets, and some of them were not in the least aware it was a parody. I swear that even as we were leaving, some people had no idea that it was satire, not reality.

James

by comp1systems

I enter a lot of contest and don't win a thing, but it's not
discouraging. I just recently won a $50 gift certificate from
Sharebuilder, and $10 from playing an Easy$10 lottery
scratcher. So imagine how pleased I was when I won! I
have always wanted an iPod mini...so if I win -- Woopee! If
I don't, it was fun trying...there'll be other contests in TR,
right?

by maecuff

A car payment from a Cincinnati radio station by writing an essay about my 'car from hell'. I also won a dance contest at a club, but I think that was because I was the least drunk person there at the time..

by cg it

That was a very horrible image you created OZ!

never won a bloody thing worth mentioning but I did win $90.00 on the lottery which the wife promptly took from me and bought some rose bushes.

After that, I stopped playing the lottery figuring if I ever won big, I'll never see a scent of it and I'll be lousy with rose bushes.

by smorty71

Back in 1998, my wife and I won a trip to LA to see KISS and the Smashing Pumpkins at Dodger Stadium on Halloween night from a local radio station. It included airfare, concert tickets, rental car and hotel. Plus, they put us up at the Hilton on Sunset right next to the Comedy Store.

I'd have to say that is the coolest thing I've ever won.

by oz_media

THat IS really cool, ROOOOOOAAAAD TRIIIIIIP!!!!!

My friend at the track still bugs me everytime I wear my KISS shirt to the track. He's sitting there in a faded (10 year old, at least!) Red Wings shirt, and he laughs at me for wearing a Millenium New Years Eve KISS shirt.

Last time I saw them (probably at least the 8th time) they played a full show, just under 4 hrs, for the Millenium New Years Eve at GM Place Vancouver.

Ace was so done in, he solo'd right through the New Years countdown, he forgot there were a bunch of radio station contest winners (not myself) who were promised a chance to do the countdown onstage with them and then just a quick "Happy New Years" followed by another hour of music. REALLY cool show though!

by tony hopkinson

From entering a survey about HP equipment. Course by the time I had gained permission to accept them from management I had to really rush to spend them before they expired.
Other than that I'm notoriously unlucky at this sort of thing, sometimes even my xmas crackers turn out to be empty.

by jkaras

Besides a cruise everyday that my answering machine tells me, I've won:
1.Only one trophy, besides this one big breasted blone once....ahem. Out of all the sports I played throught my life I only won one trophy, first place in basketball. We were 11 and my dad was the coach, he drafted the most motley bunch of players where everyone was laughing at him. My dad used to play for St. Johns and he proved that games are won on rebounds. Basically we had a team of Dennis Rodmans, minus style, complexion, and attitude. It was very strange accepting that trophy and funny as hell seeing the scowls from the league. I think my dad orgasimed up there in satisfaction, we were not too popular around town for a while in the local block parties.
2.Every X-mas party I win something pissing everyone off. I've won movie tickets, gift cards of $25-50, mugs, t-shirts, food vouchers at resturants, yadda yadda.
3.I actually won third prize in my 8th grade science project writting a graphics display on an Apple IIe, it was an optical illusion and an MTV logo that changed color, it was so pathetic I was embarassed, then I had to collect my ribbon. Everyone else did something remarkable and mine was silly, the tention was high in that gymnasium.
4. I won Band of Brothers box set my favorite prize of all. Later in the week I tried to win tickets to Circus Sole for my mom's birthday and they were all gone and I had a choice of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle tickets, I hung up in disgust.

by oz_media

NIIIIIICE!!

I think I paid about $120.00 CDA about four years ago for mine. I actually copied all the disks as I watch it SO often I don't want to kill my originals.

AWESOME show, but form a single perspective from one company and focused on a single regiment of course.

I'd love to see one form teh German side actually, they are SUPPOSED to be doing an HBO set but about the Pacific this time around, that'd be cool too.

About the only thing I've seen that's CLOSE to BOB is Enemy at the Gates. There's no doubt that the war had many hero's but that Major Winters sure did his part, fascinating man.

Have you ever seen some of the personal websites those guys (and their descendants) have? They are REALLY good!

Bill Guarnere:(watch the intro)
http://www.wildbillguarnere.com/

Someone started writing the Dick Winters Story last year too:
Biggest Brother: The Story of Major Richard D. Winters, the Man Behind the Band of Brothers

I can't wait to get a copy!

by dwiebles

if so, it would be a longer list.

I have won, ummm, let's see, A trolling motor for the boat when I was 12 or so. That pretty much sums it up. My family has the habit of winning the "texas mickey" at socials. (for anyone that didn't make sense to, it's a Manitoba thing)

-D

by hockeyist

##What I won##
...years ago McDonalds Crew Member of the Month I got some Blue Stratos after shave kit. As most 16 year olds I marinated myself in it.

Down at the beach one day I won an Aeroguard personal fly spray kit for answering a simple question.

First time I ever played a poker machine I put 80c into it and won $120 and never played again. Figured I am way out in front here.

Also a fun park pass to Luna Park.

##What I almost won##

Entered an $18 million lotto draw and almost won.

That's about it, pretty pathetic really.

by skidoggeruk

Back when scratch cards were the new thing, A friend of mine won $50 at the bar, he handed out scratch cards to EVERYBODY at the bar that agreed to keep buying scratch cards with any winnings. Know it sounds stupid now, but we were handing out scratch cards for like an hour, til all the money ran out.

by dmambo

In my college days, I went to an early Halloween party. My buddy's girlfriend wore a pink fairy dress. I asked her if I could borrow it for the weekend Halloween contest at a bar. It was a little tight at the top, but it looked great. I didn't shave for 3 days, got a fat cigar and wore sunglasses and was the pink fairy from Brooklyn with the NY attitude. Copped the 2nd place prize of $75.

I got completely ripped and tried to walk home. Four girls in a convertible picked me up and we rode around for a long while before they dropped me off. It would have been quite a memorable night if only I could remember most of it. The next day, the $75 was gone. I know I applied it to my bar bill, but not sure what happened to the rest of it.

by dmambo

A few year's later, I won a bottle of Scotch at a Halloween party for my nerd costume. I got all the nerd gear from my father's closet. He was a little insulted, but he enjoyed the Scotch.

by fonken monken uk

When I was in the cub scouts I won a kite-flying competition with my garden cane/bin bag combination.
My prize was a stupidly large bar of galaxy chocolate. Nothing has come close to that moment of glory since

by itgirli

I'm such a loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay. I'm over it.

by salamander

The ladies will be able to appreciate this.

For the fellas, I'll explain. When women congregate to do wedding or baby showers, there are always hideously STUPID games with prizes involved. For example: Toilet Paper Bride; How Well do you Know the Bride?; Scavenger Hunt; Heaviest Purse; Guess the Spices; Baby Bingo; Due Date Bets...it's endless. The ladies know what I mean. Fellas, count yourselves lucky in that all you have to do is show up for the bachelor party with a wad of cash.

I am, at best, a tepid participant in such games. I did manage to win the Heaviest Purse game, quite by accident. I won a very nice basket of strawberry and champagne-scented bath items. The bride's grandma was a little irritated that her purse wasn't heavier than mine. Mine contained a laptop, so I guess that beats the three-pound brick of Mentos that she was lugging around. :)

by jbaker

I won about $250 for a halloween costume. I dressed up as a nude....nude panty hose, a massive strap-on, some curly hair from a wig, and two fishing floats (in the cut-off toe of the pantyhose....). Got lots of double and triple takes in that costume....and lots and lots of penis envy!

What else have I won....

Madonna tickets in the 80's
A "Cat" jacket at a company picnic
$100 in Hooters gift cards (for a poker run)

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